AI and Consciousness

 

 

You may have read “No Soul”:

The admission of a female robot,

To ignore the realities therein

You’d have to be a nut.

 

I wrote that poem on May 13

Just five days ago

And now today, five days later,

Here’s more you should know.

 

No soul means no soulmate

No soulmate means no conscience,

No conscience, no consciousness

No remorse or repentance.

 

No remorse for wrong doing

In spite of its exhaustive database,

The facility for consciousness

Belongs to the human race.

 

Robotics are moving fast

But are humans keeping apace?

Is it possible for these machines

To overrun the human race?

 

Machines are what they are;

With no moral capacity,

No self-awareness or analysis,

No God-given morality.

Consciousness is not a programme

Fitted to a robot’s circuitry,

Instead, it is a God-given facility

Uploaded in all humanity.

 

Which brings us to two terms:

Humanity and humanoids-

The former is God’s creation;

The latter is spiritually void.

 

Consciousness is much deeper

Than the entire Internet database,

It’s a Spirit to spirit connection

Only with the human race.

It is impossible to locate

Like the spirit, the soul, the mind,

Search one’s anatomy through

And none of these you’d find.

 

But they are definitely present

And functional, I may add,

And their day to day transmission

Is the best evidence ever had.

 

Man may try all he can,

A human he will never make,

That is God, the Creator’s specialty-

Any other is a fake.

 

Even to define consciousness

Reveals a lack of comprehension,

How then would man capture it

To use in his robotic creation?

 

Man looks not at the unseen

But at the things which are seen

However, the things seen are temporal

But the things not seen are eternal.

 

 

Artificial intelligence is databased,

Consciousness is not!

Robots will never procreate-

It’s not a humanoid’s lot.

 

There you see the vast difference

Between consciousness and AI,

Humanoids may be knowledge based

But it’s on man they must rely.

 

Psalm 139:14

 

I will praise thee;

For I am fearfully and wonderfully made:

Marvellous are thy works;

And that my soul knoweth right well.

 

Stewart Russell © May 18, 2023